«This visit is a demonstration of solidarity of Lithuania with the Ukrainian people and sign of support to Ukraine», emphasized  Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius after the talks held with Minister for Foreign Affairs of  Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin on June 21, 2018.

Both Ministers have positively evaluated the current state of the  bilateral relations, which fully correspond to the existing level of the  strategic partnership.

Pavlo Klimkin expressed his sincere gratitude to the Lithuanian  Republic for the strong political support of Ukraine's sovereignty and  independence, and most importantly for the active practical assistance  to our state: provision of humanitarian, financial and technical  assistance (since 2014 – more than 9 mil. Euro), medical rehabilitation  for the Ukrainian military servicemen (since 2014 – more than 200  persons).

Linas Linkevičius emphasized Lithuania's intention to continue  proactive and effective support to our country in implementing the  important internal reforms, to facilitate the European and Euro-Atlantic  integration of Ukraine.

In the frameworks of the visit Minister Linkevičius is also planning  to visit Luhansk region and territories at the so-called “dividing line”  in order to familiarize with the actual security situation, caused by  the Russian aggression, and to discuss ways of Lithuania’s supporting  small and medium-sized businesses in the region.